Do you like to wander in the Watagans?

The Watagans National Park, 10 minutes away, is one of the areas recently declared open for shooting.

The National Parks Association has a number of key concerns about the decision to allow shooting in National Parks and are encouraging the broader community to express their concern to their local State Member.

The concerns are

1. The purpose of National Parks is to protect the environment and allow the quiet enjoyment of nature, not for blood sports.
2. This decision poses a huge risk to the safety of the public, who just want to bushwalk, have a picnic or enjoy nature with their families.
3. Control of feral animals should be left to the professionals. Recreational hunting is not an efficient or cost-effective tool for feral animal control in National Parks, and may have serious impacts on our native wildlife.
4. This is a major betrayal of the public by the Premier, who has consistently promised that there will be no recreational hunting in National Parks. It is completely unacceptable for our protected areas to be used as a pawn in a political trade-off.

Local National Parks affected include

• Watagans National Park
• Barrington Tops National Park and SCA
  Myall Lakes National Park
• Coolah Tops National Park
  Goulburn River National Park
• Nowendoc National Park

Please register your disappointment directly with your local member of parliament, Greg Piper MP with a short telephone call (02) 4959 3200 a letter 92 Victory Parade, TORONTO NSW 2283 or an email lakemacquarie@parliament.nsw.gov.au 

There is also an online letter writing facility .